Table 1 List of resources and modules employed by the dbNP

OBO Foundry [9]

http://www.obofoundry.org

Controlling vocabulary

Simple Assay Module

http://sam.dbnp.org

Managing assay data for clinical measurements

Generic study capturing framework (GSCF)

http://demo.dbnp.org

Module for storing study-meta. querying the dbNP

PathVisio [10]

http://www.pathvisio.org

Software tool for editing and annotating biological pathways used for pathway analysis

WikiPathways [10]

http://www.wikipathways.org

Open public platform for curating biological pathways used for pathway analysis

Investigation/study/assay (ISA) tools [12]

http://isatab.sourceforge.net

Open general-purpose tool set for managing experimental data used as supported forma